Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-08
DAKOTA ITEMS.
The Bath Herald has suspended.

yield eighty bushels to the acre.
Brown county claims to have raised
3 3,5OO,OOO bushels of wheat this year.
The planning mill, Of II. Grimmels. at
Sioux Falls, burned last spring, is be-
ing rebuilt.
Passenger trains on the Minneapolis
and Pacific railway are now running
into Oakes. 'e
The new tin mill building at Custer
will require 10000 feet Of lumber in its
construction.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
for the month of August are 81. .256, ,loO,
an increase of S29,742,33.
The new agricultural college barn at
Brookings will require 10000 feet of
lumber in it's construction.
Three horses belonging to Mrs. Frank
Dreis, of Vermillion. were killed by
lightning THURSDAY night.
The board of trustees of the Yankton
insane asylum have ordered another
artesian well dug on the grounds.
The st. Paul Globes interview with
M. II. Day is to the effect that he is not
opposing Cleveland's denomination.
The report is again revived that ex-
Gov. Pierce is to be placed at the head
of the state university at Grand Forks.
Gov. Church was not present at the
soldiers reunion at Woonsocket, but
sent a letter mplimenting the soldiers.
w. II. Phelps, of Sioux Falls "roasts"
his brother, Minister Phelps, of Eng
land, and says Cleveland ought never
to have appointed him.
Rev. Father Nolan, who has been
pastor of the Catholic church at Beres-
ford, has been ordered to take charge
of the church at Watertown.
David B. Yale, an old soldier at
Plankinton, has been granted pension
which, with back pay, amounts to
$1,1OO.
Groton shipped last year 100000
bushels of wheat, and expects to ship
double that amount this year. There
are six elevators there.
In Clark and Hamlin counties there
will be a close vote on the local option
question, according TO reports, with a
good chance for prohibition to carry.
The authorities at Grandin tele-
graphed to Fargo Thursday for help,
as the threshing crews, under the in
tluence Of liquor, were taking the town.
The health officers who examined the
diseased cattle at Richardson, say sus-
picious symptoms attach to two herds
pointing to foot and mouth disease.
John Siluler, near Aberdeen, has
threshed $500 bushels of wheat from
l42 acres of ground, making an average
yield of nearly twenty-four bushels per
acre.
AS Mrs. August Shultz. near Bristol,
was entering Il cattle corral near her
home, she was set upon by young
bull and fatally gored in the side and
abdomen.
1t is reported that the Duluth, Huron
and Denver railroad will be graded this
fall from Benson to Watertown, paral-
leling the Manitoba and only about a
mile distant from it.
EX- Gov. Ordway denies that he has
made vast amount of money on Capt.
tai hill, Washington, but says he has
plenty OF money. He also keeps close
watch of Dakota affairs.
The bid Of S. Il. CLOVER, of Sioux Falls,
for printing the compilation of the laws
of the territory was the lowest. Com
piler Price estimates that the volumes
will cost about Sl.50 a piece.
at Watertown, the wife of Daniel
Baker was filling gasoline stove while
lighted. The stove exploded and the
bride of a few days was seriously
burned. Her recovery is doubtful.
| A desperate fight is to be made in the
Black Hills to prevent the organization
of new county to be called Meade
from Lawrence county, of which Dead
wood is the county seat. Sturgis is the
proposed new county seat.
The territorial board of education has
issued circular designating the schools
and colleges Of Groton. Redfeld, Pierre
Mitchell, Scotland, jamestown ane
Tower City as institutions to give nor
NAL instruction.
The secret anti-division convention
which it is said will be held at Aber
deen, is the revival Of a principle thai
has not been popular in American poll
tics. The stigma now attached to al
who belonged to the old know-nothine
party might be construed as warning
to all secret political organizations.
| II. A. Humphrey, through his paper
the Faulkton Times, has directl,
charged County Commissioner d. A
Smith with illegally and fraudulent!
NoOAA6 bV a ACSCllu Il dllhGOu ClCCG,Oll
and intimates that an effort will b
made at the meeting Of the first grant
| jury to have the commissioner indicted
The Aberdeen city council has mad
the following tax levy for the year
General fund, mills; streets ant
alleys. mills; cemetry, x mill; fire de
partment, u mill; interest, 2 mills; lib
rary, u mill. A levy of l1a mills ha
also been made for the purpose of salts
flying the judgement of the count.
against the city for the liquor license
received.
| The new discovery on the Iron hill
property, Black Hills. called the HON
Run, has developed into a veritable be
nanza. Frank Byrant, an old expert
enced miner, reports solid piece of or
from blast put off while there weigh